well i would suggest the opposite, feedback should be anonymous. What good can come from identifying the owners? the feedback is the same if done anonymously.At least it would protect the feed back owner from being "abused" by others, not necessarily the entry's author but other zealous individuals.

Real name, and user name... where they can find out your email, spam you, black mail you. Then they get your address, your family, your friends, and terror them one by one. What a risky job I have here.

Question needs more context. I assumed that the only person who would see the feedback was the game author, but it appears that teletubo and moogle assume that everyone will see it. Which is the case?

(Personally I don't mind either way, although I don't think that the individual point allocations should be public or you lose an important aspect of the distinction between community voting and judges).

There's not much difference between commenting in the forums and formally on the Java4k site. In both cases you know who has said what. I don't think it's essential to use real names with comments, login handle should do.

It's always nicer to receive positive comments then negative, but dealing with negative comments is all part of life. The only one's that matter are those from people you respect. In those cases, it usually means there's room for improvement. I never could figure out the Grudge thing, even for people that have mucked me around; I just avoid getting into a position where they can do it again. They can go annoy someone else.

I don't know if it is too late to vote on it, but Name and comment only should be fine. I think everyone should be able to see it too, because it is really an extension to the reviews. Points should always be anonymous, IMHO, because it has been that way since the beginning of the competition.

I mean, if people really wanted to produce bad comments, they'll produce bad comments. I don't think there is any control there. Knowing who did it only works against them, and doing it enough times will probably get them banned anyway. In a good batch of appels, there is always a rotten one.

I also think that the number of downloads is a nice number to evaluate the popularity of game. Mine is around 100 downloads only so I don't expect too much. Anyway I did not advertise it anywhere nor to anybody...

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